“Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy”
“Yes i am sad because i want to be happy, if never want to be a happy i never became sad”
“Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One’s Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.”
“Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.”